Friday, december 5, 2025

Born to Be Nurtured: The Hidden Science of Human Connection

(One-day Live Training with CHRISTINE FORNER, MSW, RSW)

Discover how reclaiming our innate need for nurturing can heal the body, calm the mind, and restore the deep sense of safety we were all born to feel.

Through science, stories, and experiential moments learn that nurturing is not a sign of weakness — it is the deepest form of strength and the foundation of human thriving.

Date & Time: Friday, December 5, 2025 — 9:30 AM–4:30 PM MT
Format: Live Online Training

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The Quiet Starvation We’ve Learned to Ignore

Modern culture celebrates self-reliance while dismissing our deep need for care.

The result? Many of us live in a state of quiet starvation—not for food, but for the felt sense of being nurtured.

Just like physical malnourishment changes the body, the absence of nurturing changes the brain—leading to fear, stress, and disconnection.

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REGISTRATION & PRICING

Early Bird DISCOUNT: $175.99
(Until November 28)
General Registration: $199.99
(Group discounts available at checkout).

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A Day of Learning, Reflection, and Renewal

This day-long event will open your eyes to the evolutionary foundation of nurturing—and why it is essential for healing and growth.

You will learn how the brain is designed for connection, why so many of us struggle to feel safe even in safe places, and how to begin restoring this missing piece in your life.

Date & Time: Friday, December 5, 2025 — 9:30 AM–4:30 PM MT
Format: Live Online Training

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What You’ll Learn

Why nurturing is built into our biology—and how it shaped human evolution as much as fire, tools, and language.

The real story of human survival—not survival of the fittest, but survival of the most connected.
What happens when nurturing is missing—and why so many of us feel starved for safety and care without realizing it.
Renurturing Syndrome—why receiving love or kindness can sometimes feel overwhelming or even threatening, and how to move through it gently.
The hidden cost of self-reliance culture—and how it’s pulled us away from our natural state of connection.
How to begin re-learning to be nurtured—simple ways to start letting in the care and safety your nervous system has always needed.
Why nurturing is not weakness—but the strongest and most transformative force humans possess.

A New Understanding of What It Means to Be Human

We’ve been told that human evolution is about survival of the fittest—competition, toughness, and independence.

But that’s not the full story.

From our earliest days as a species, humans didn’t survive through dominance—we survived through connection, co-regulation, and care.

Our brains and bodies evolved to thrive when we are nurtured: held, soothed, and understood.

Nurturing is not sentimental—it’s a neurobiological system as essential to our survival as walking upright or shaping tools with our hands.

Who This is For

This event is for clinicians, healers, and anyone who senses that something essential is missing in how we understand care and healing.
It’s for those who want to reconnect with what makes us truly human—and bring that wisdom into their work, relationships, and daily lives.

ABOUT CHRISTINE FORNER

Christine Forner, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW—known as The Fierce Nurturer—is a trauma therapist and international educator specializing in dissociation, mindfulness, and securefulness. A protector of the vulnerable, she has over 35 years of clinical experience helping clinicians and communities understand the central role of safety and nurturing in healing trauma.

Christine is the author of Dissociation, Mindfulness, and Creative Meditations (Routledge, 2017) and the forthcoming The Craving: How Prolonged Fear Shaped Humanity. She has introduced pioneering frameworks such as Securefulness, Primal Isolation Anguish, and Renurturing Syndrome, which have reshaped how therapists approach dissociation care and the art of nurturing presence. A past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), Christine continues to teach, write, and consult worldwide, guiding clinicians to embody presence, attunement, and secure care.

What people have to say…

Dissociation 101 was a radical and powerful course with ideas that could, and should, create a sea change in contemporary mental health practices. Christine Forner has created a course that celebrates hope, healing, nurturing and love. She challenges ideas that dissociation is to be ignored, at best, and disbelieved at worst. She challenges ideas that the therapist job is to challenge and dissuade when, most simply, it is to love. I encourage anyone who works with trauma, which is most of us, to begin your journey of reconceptualizing the treatment of trauma here, with Christine.

Michelle Kennedy, M.C., R. Psych; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
I am deeply grateful for everything that I learned in this course, both as a person on a human healing journey and as a clinician.

J.G., Clinician
The Dissociation 101 course provided compelling information that was eye-opening and incredibly helpful to any clinical mental health practitioner. Christine is passionate about the content and shares her decades-long experience in this packed course. It provided historical and theoretical information as well as clinical applications and signs/symptoms. I highly recommend this course to clinicians looking to expand their knowledge of trauma treatment and understanding dissociation and systemic issues that impact treatment on a deeper level.

Jennifer, Clinical Director/Registered Social Worker; Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I recently had the pleasure and privilege of learning about dissociation from a master clinician and teacher, Christine Forner. Christine’s approach is both wide and specific. She captures the history of what has been written about dissociation and dives deep into its historical inaccuracies, including the Freudian pivot from naming abuse to locating the problems solely within the victim. Her teaching is passionate, compassionate, comprehensive and understandable. It helped me see dissociation in a new way and gave me a new stance with which to approach my clients.

Matt Fried,MA, Ph.D.,MFA
Lic. Psychologist